Thank you, Presiding Officer. In the film Back to the Future, Doc Brown says to Marty McFly, 'Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.' Listening to those words, he could have easily been talking about Wales today. It's a sad fact that they reflect the attitude of the Welsh Government, and, in particular, the Deputy Minister for Climate Change. However, Wales does still need roads to function for commuting and transportation of goods. Ultimately, the Welsh economy still very much depends on roads.

As the Federation of Small Businesses reported in 2019, 86 per cent of those companies surveyed put investment in road infrastructure as quite or very important, making this their most important transport priority. However, successive Welsh Labour Governments have failed to address the issue of rising congestion in Wales, through a combination of apathy and incompetence. Between 2000 and 2019, the road network only increased by 2.8 per cent, despite the fact that the volume of road traffic increased by 29.5 per cent over the same period. There is no denying that some road infrastructure projects have been delivered late or over budget. Others, such as the M4 relief road, have been promised and then cancelled. Their failure to address rising congestion, as well as the poor standards of public transport, is having major health and environmental impacts on the people of Wales.